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...frigid with The Great Silence (1968), a snowbound Western in which a mute Jean-Louis Trintignant, the Man With No Voice, sets out to even the odds against the nasties who cut out his tongue. It's a plot similar to the film Leone was making that year: Once Upon a Time in the West, another decades-old revenge story and one of the great, elegiac Westerns. It was horse opera rendered as grand opera, with Morricone's fullest, most voluptuous score. Corbucci's vision was much bleaker. For once the good guy doesn't win. Hero and heroine...
...Tanna. "Unlike China, we've always been surrounded by a sense of luxury. We've had the maharajas who've grown up with Louis Vuitton trunks and jewelry made exclusively for them by Cartier and Boucheron and all that. There's been no cultural revolution that's been thrust upon us. It's not as if we're seeing our first red lipstick and going out and buying it in hundreds of thousands. India is getting richer. At a very micro level, I think every Indian woman who is now financially independent is realizing the joys of guilt-free consumption...
...Gross will be missed in University Hall, but a tenure in which many members of his administration raised serious concerns upon their departure from it raises questions as to the competency of the leader in charge...
...also actually discouraged. It is as unfair to make a blanket accusation of apathy against the faculty as it would be to accuse the student body of laziness and conformism because large numbers take guts or popular courses. Instead, I suggest concerned students and faculty unite to agree upon and promote a common vision of general education for Harvard’s future. Now let’s see whether anybody steps forward to help break down this academic Berlin Wall...
From shuttle fights and benchings to the suspension of a starting quarterback for half of the season to the most headline-grabbing disruption of them all, the dismissal of team captain Matt Thomas upon his arrest for allegedly assaulting his ex-girlfriend (the charges were eventually dropped in late September of 2006), the spring and summer of last year were marred by the ongoing saga of off-the-field indiscretions...